Cool work: Yura Borisov at the "Lesson", Germanika at the "Art Moscow"

Last week, movie stars shone not only on the red carpets of the Moscow International Film Festival, but also at the closed premiere of the series "Lesson" starring Yura Borisov and Daniil Vorobyov. Vanya Dmitrienko, Agatha Christie, Sergey Lazarev and My Michelle met on the same stage at the gala dinner of the upcoming MUZ-TV Awards. Director Valeria Guy Germanica joined the art community and presented a collection of jewelry at the Art Moscow fair. Izvestia — about social events and private events of the past week.

Yura Borisov and Daniil Vorobyov at the premiere of the drama "Lesson"

Last week was marked by the MIFF in the secular calendar. Every day, screenings were held at the Khudozhestvenny and Oktyabr, which usually host closed premieres of films and TV series, as part of the festival program. Perhaps that's why the organizers arranged the presentation of the series "Lesson" on April 22 in the ARBAT HALL next door. The venue, however, fit into the concept of the evening — Okko general producer Gavriil Gordeev called it an assembly hall.

The Lesson is a school drama starring Yura Borisov and Daniil Vorobyov. The hero of the first one is Anton, a hip-hop star divorced from real life, who has nowhere to go after a fatal accident and rehab. His brother Konstantin comes to the rescue, but with one condition — a relative must become a teacher at his school.

— The director of photography Sergey Filatov did not come today, we put a bold "n" in the magazine for him. And now alphabetically," Gavriil Gordeev began from the stage, inviting the actors of the project, as if to a blackboard. — Borisov Yura, Bordachev Roma, Vorobyov Daniil, Denisova Polina, Dolgolenko Alyona, Engalycheva Vera, Karyakina Elizabeth, Lerman Olga, Ochir-Goryaev Ayush, Petrosyan Ivan, Savostyuk Oleg, Shcherbina Vitaly.

The Oscar nominee of 2025, Yura Borisov, made a touching appeal to his parents and his wife Anna Shevchuk, who came to support him.

— I want to declare my love to my mom and dad. Unfortunately, they are not in the audience, but nevertheless. Mom, Dad, I love you! Thanks! And, of course, thanks to my wife and therapist, Ana, too. Anya, I love you," Borisov said.

After that, the audience was shown the first two episodes of the project, which they lavished with laughter in the funniest scenes.

"Room of Culture", Zoloto and Bearwolf are on the shortlist of the MUZ-TV award for the first time

That evening, the stars of the music industry met at the MUZ-TV Awards 2025 LEGEND gala dinner at the Moscow Marriott Imperial Plaza hotel in Moscow to find out the nominees and, possibly, hear their name among them. Newcomers to the award were also shortlisted, among them Zoloto, who will compete for the plate in the Album of the Year nomination with Reincarnate. Bearwolf is nominated in the Breakthrough of the Year category, and her Godzilla claims to win in the Best Song and Best Dance Video categories. Zhenya Trofimov and the Culture Room are presented in four categories at once.: "Best Band", "Best Song" ("Trains"), "Breakthrough of the Year" and "Best Lyric Video" ("They're All about You").

Basta, Lucy Chebotina, Dima Bilan, Leonid Agutin, Igor Krutoy, Egor Creed, "Hands Up!", Anna Asti and many others are also competing for the plates this season for various achievements. The dinner also became a kind of pre-award. Sergey Lazarev, Vanya Dmitrienko, "My Michelle" and the iconic rock band "Agatha Christie" were responsible for the musical mood of the evening.

Stars of "Art of Moscow", "Lolita" to Obraztsov and "Limits of visibility" at the Winery

The schedule of representatives of the art community and fans of classical and modern art turned out to be the most intense last week. Several major events took place on Tuesday, April 22. The opening day of the exhibition "Man and Neural Networks: who creates whom?" was held at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. The exhibition included works by 11 artists — paintings and installations dedicated to the place of artificial intelligence in our lives and the art of the future. The first to engage in dialogue with the authors were the secular guests of the pre-screening, among whom were collector Pierre Brochet, actress Natalia Bardot and blogger Sergey Kalyuzhny.

The 22nd Art Moscow Fair of Modern, Classical and Jewelry Art, which was previewed that day in Gostiny Dvor, also demonstrated a solid stellar list of visitors. Among the guests were Timati, Evelina Khromchenko, the premier of the Bolshoi Theater Denis Rodkin. Director Valeria Guy Germanica met at one of the stands and presented a jewelry collection inspired by space. The Polina Askeri Gallery presented at the fair the works of the artist Yuri Cooper, whose calling card is object painting, which focuses on the search for aesthetics in ordinary things.

The next day, on Wednesday, April 23, the secular public met at the opening of the Stargift Prime gallery. Its exposition includes artifacts from various fields — fashion, cinema, science, history and space. For example, they showed a personal computer of Steve Jobs, Soviet banknotes signed by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, booties signed by Coco Chanel, archival sketches by Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent, a letter from Vladimir Vysotsky to film director Gennady Poloka, a copy of Lolita with Nabokov's signature to Sergei Obraztsov. Contemporary art was represented by the works of artist Taras Zheltyshev (Taras Yoom), who regularly participates in international exhibitions in London, Paris, Brussels and other countries.

We completed an art marathon at the Winery. The VIP-opening of the exhibition "Limits of Visibility" took place there last week. The works of 42 artists invite you to explore your surroundings using different viewing points, shifting the focus of attention from a central point of view to a peripheral one. This is facilitated by a special architecture with all kinds of partitions, constrictions of space, structures with holes. Among the first to appreciate the exhibition were actress Ksenia Surkova, artist Evgeny Ches, and jewelry designer Georgy Rushev.

Fashion day at the Adele Gallery and immersive show at GUM

A reception was held at the Adele Gallery at the intersection of art and fashion. Adele Bikulova presented her star friends with a collection that includes oversized basic shirts with cufflinks, lace bodysuits, palazzo trousers and other products. In the art part of the space, guests were invited to get acquainted with the updated exposition of the Embassy of the Central Asian Republic "Radiance" by Andrey Malakhov. It includes works by Issy Wood, Muzalevsky, Pirogov and other authors.

On the same day, a closed fashion show of the JULIAKISELEVA fashion house was held in the GUM Showroom in the format of an immersive show. The models appeared from behind red canvases hanging over huge picture frames. We met the ladies at the desk. The central point of the production was a bathroom filled with champagne. Among the guests of the evening were singer IVAN, soloists of the Fabrika group, Bosco di Ciliegi Development Director Konstantin Andrikopoulos and others.